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    You’ve been in IT too long when…

    I first wrote one of these lists in about 1996.  I thought of a new one tonight…  see if you can guess which one.

    You know you’ve been in IT too long when…

    • …you double-click the light switch and wonder why the lights went off again.
    • …you can not only tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, you usually spit when after saying “the A word”.
    • …the staff in McDonald’s ask if you want “the usual”.
    • …your light reading matter is by Kernighan and Ritchie.
    • …you can still remember the cheat codes for Doom, Quake and Sim City.
    • …you have to convert sums into hexadecimal in order to get them right.
    • …you think of “the axis of evil” as SCO, Intel and Microsoft.
    • …a police officer asks for your licence and you hand over a copy of the GPL.
    • …you see a printout of directory from an ftp site and know where it came from.
    • …when someone mentions ghosts, you immediately think of imaging software.
    • …you tell someone you crashed your car, and you really mean you fouled up the electronics.
    • …the last thing you “cooked” was a microprocessor.

    I’m sure there’s more great examples.  Please feel to reply with any more you can think of…

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    6 Responses to “You’ve been in IT too long when…”

    1. KrisBelucci Says:
      June 2nd, 2009 at 07:44

      Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!

    2. Simon Collis Says:
      June 17th, 2009 at 18:58

      Thanks! That makes all one subscribers then… w00t! ;-)

    3. Billy Lloyd Says:
      July 3rd, 2010 at 19:22

      i played the original SimCity in the 90′s and until now i still play the latest version of SimCity*.”

    4. Kyle Bailey Says:
      July 29th, 2010 at 18:12

      i used to play Sim City when i was still in high school and this is simply one of the best games of all times.*;`

    5. esotechnica » Blog Archive » You’ve still been in computers too long… Says:
      September 26th, 2010 at 23:37

      [...] …when these mean something to you (response to this…) [...]

    6. John Ali Says:
      September 28th, 2010 at 04:20

      simcity is my all time favorite game, my dad even played that game “‘*

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